Our global presence gives our mobility team a unique perspective on the realities of managing talent worldwide.

As consultants, they use our international insight to advise how best to design and implement an effective mobility program. It means we form a distinctive kind of partnership – the kind that comes from having someone there for you, everywhere.

Joanne Danehl

Global Director, Intercultural, Language and Partner Support Services

Joanne’s leadership helps Crown to deliver training solutions that meet clients’ corporate goals and the needs of their relocating employees. She works with individuals and teams around the world to provide the support services that are key to a successful relocation.

Joanne has worked in commercial training for over 20 years and global mobility for more than 15 years.

Phil Smith

Global Director, Financial and Compensation Services

Phil leads our financial and compensation services businesses. He is focused on enhancing clients’ awareness of and helping reduce mobility costs without sacrificing employee benefits and experience.

Phil has over 30 years’ mobility tax and compensation experience with a big four background for much of that time.

Roberta Carnaccini

Global Immigration Director

Roberta Carnaccini, Italian native, has studied foreign languages and literatures in Bologna, with scholarships that brought her to the universities of Mainz, Germany and Indiana, US. Her Master thesis is anthropologically based on the culture and habits of the Native Americans of North and Central America. She also has a post-graduate degree in Communication and Public Relations.

Keen on foreign cultures, Roberta lived, for longer or shorter periods, in several countries including France, UK, Ireland and the Philippines. In 2008 she moved to the US working as Immigration Leader for a top Fortune 500 Company. During this stay, she also became an American citizen. She is also a fierce conservationist and is an ocean-lover.

She then moved to Germany in 2014 and joined Crown in 2017. She currently lives in Italy after having been away for 15 years.

Roberta brings 18+ years technical experience in the immigration field, a multicultural and multilingual background and a client perspective that allows her to always consider the other side of the coin.

Hanneke Noort

Account Management Director EMEA

Hanneke leads the Account Management function for EMEA and in that capacity has overall responsibility for our client relationships within the region.

With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Hanneke has a wealth of experience in finding the right solution for the clients.

Having lived in London, New York, London, Mexico and now Switzerland – Hanneke has first hand experience of the challenges and  that employees can encounter when relocation internationally.